Private Equity
San Francisco-based Puls Technologies Inc, a support provider for everyday life devices, has secured $50 million in Series C funding. Temasek led the round with participation from other investors that included Sequoia Capital, Red Dot Capital Partners, Samsung NEXT, Viola Ventures, Hanaco Ventures and Hamilton Lane.
3 min read · 28 August 2018
Deserve, a financial tech company that helps people build credit and achieve financial independence, has secured $17 million in Series C funding. The investors included Accel, Aspect Ventures, Pelion Ventures, Mission Holdings, Alumni Venture Group and GDP Venture.
4 min read · 27 August 2018
MusicLife, a blockchain music exchange ecosystem, has raised $5 million in Series A funding. Metropolis VC was the lead investor.
4 min read · 27 August 2018
Denver-based Evolve Vacation Rental Network, a next-generation vacation rental management company, has raised $80 million in funding. T. Rowe Price Associates Inc led the round with participation from Winslow Capital Management, Foxhaven Asset Management, Arrowmark Partners Annox Capital, Allen & Company LLC and PAR Capital Ventures.
1 min read · 27 August 2018
Sotera Medical Corp, a medical device company, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding. The investor was Valley Growth Ventures.
1 min read · 27 August 2018
Durham, North Carolina-based Prescient, a BIM design and building platform, has named Todd Meckley as vice president of design and Rich Pond as chief marketing officer. Meckley was founder of Entasis Design while Pond previously worked at BP where he led the Americas marketing team for its lubricants division. Prescient's backers include Eldridge Industries.
5 min read · 27 August 2018
Calibrate Ventures has raised over $73 million for its new fund, according to an SEC filing. The target is $100 million. The Los Angeles-based venture firm invests in startups in the connected platforms, consumer and enterprise SaaS sectors.
1 min read · 27 August 2018
Harbour BioMed said Aug. 27 that it raised $85 million in a Series B round led by GIC Private Ltd. New investors, including China Life Private Equity Investment Co and Vertex Ventures, along with Series A investors AdvanTech and Legend Capital also participated. Harbour BioMed is a biopharmaceutical company that is developing therapeutics for oncology and immunological diseases.
3 min read · 27 August 2018
San Mateo, California-based Armory, a provider of a platform that automates software delivery, has raised $10 million in Series A funding, according to a blog post. Crosslink Capital led the round with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Javelin Venture Partners, Y Combinator and Robin Vasan.
1 min read · 24 August 2018
New York City and Seattle-based Carmera, a provider of real-time HD maps and navigation-critical data to self-driving vehicles, has secured $20 million in Series B funding, according to a blog post. GV led the round with participation other investors that included Matrix Partners.
1 min read · 24 August 2018
